It doesn't matter whether you are on twitter or bluesky, you will always see long threads of men arguing w/ each other about whether economic feelings are real without seeing anyone mention childcare costs, rising unsheltered homelessness or the fact that uncountable numbers of families live in cars
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
Carl Kerényi. Bollingen Recollections. Religion, Mythology, and Symbolism
Prometheus; Dionysos; Asklepios; Eleusis; Zeus and Hera
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Letters of the emperors Michael and Theophilus to Louis the Pious, with the names of the emperors in gold
BnF MS Latin 1597A; Concilium Parisiense, anno 825; 9th century (between 882 et 900, with 10th and 13th c additions); Abbey of Saint-Rémi of Reims; f.5r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
If you're wondering whether the book might speak to you, a writer who is not me, then maybe you could ask the author of Dreyer's English.
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Also, the kind of pain encountered through a critical assessment of one's past work is the sine qua non of academic development. It cannot be replaced by a sycophantic machine that is designed to flatter & appease.
This is slow, grinding, exhausting work that often makes me question my own ability as a writer, as an English-speaker, & as a scholar. But the end result is invariably that the revised text is a much better product than the first draft, & this makes everything worth it. It is a uniquely human task.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
I was delighted to see my friend’s resume list his spoken languages as:
- Assyrian
- Chaldean
- Syriac
It reminded me of another friend who lists:
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Bosnian
- Montenegrin
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Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year.
Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants.
They are good for society and the economy.
Front of Butterflies of Britain and Western Europe and Their Caterpillars: An Identification Guide
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The remains of Roman Wroxeter (Viriconium) in Shropshire. Established by the end of the 1st century AD, Viriconium was one of the largest cities in Roman Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Wroxeter #Shropshire
Me?
Oh I’m just a Roman glass pig hanging out and chillin’.
🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Glass Museum, Cologne
#AncientBlueSky 🏺
A contemplative baboon from an ancient Egyptian papyrus.
🕰️c1000-700 BC
📷 mine
Here’s the Battersea Shield, a masterpiece of Celtic bronzework. It was found in the Thames in the 1800s & was probably a votive offering.
Has to be one of my favourite items in the museum. I could stare at it forever following those sinuous lines & curves.
🏛️British Museum
📷 mine
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The Wandsworth Shield - an Iron Age shield dating to the 2nd century BC. It was found while dredging the River Thames at Wandsworth in South London during the first half of the 19th century. Now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #IronAge
A dome-shaped helmet constructed from rows of boar tusks, arranged in overlapping curved segments across three horizontal tiers. Bands separate each layer. Their surfaces show natural aging, with visible cracks. The helmet is dramatically lit against a dark background
A helmet made of the tusks of wild boars. From Mycenae, 16th century BC. Hunting wild boars was dangerous, but popular with the Mycenaean elite. The helmet served as trophy and testified to bravery.
📷 me
🏺 #archaeology
Like half the book of Genesis is about Abraham & co. figuring out ways to live as immigrants in a land that's already full of Canaanites. It should be an instant red flag whenever you see a politician invoke ancient maps to justify the actions of a modern state.
"Our culture really does think about Rome all the time. Dozier’s THE WHITE PEDESTAL asks a harder question: why—and to what ends." —Brian K. Mahoney, Hudson Valley Newsroom
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
A horse with an elephant head used in warfare, transporting two soldiers and a fortified tower. This detail is from a 1471 printed book (Speculum humanae salvationis).
Tell me you have never seen an elephant before without telling me ... #skystorians
Iranian here. The loudest voices in the room do not represent all of our voices. You can be against the regime AND not want a war.
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
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